Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-25 months agoPeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caimagemessage-square349fedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down1111
arrow-up1281arrow-down1imagePeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caMagnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square349fedilink
minus-squareDesRoin :fullstacklive:@geekdom.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·5 months ago@Magnolia_ been running Mint for years and never had issues with the package versions being too old for anything 🤷🏻♂️
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·5 months agoI’m generally in the same boat. I don’t think of Mint’s packages as “old”, but “stable”. I’ve had a few cases where I want the latest features, and there are easy ways to get new versions. Dialing down instability isn’t so easy.
@Magnolia_ been running Mint for years and never had issues with the package versions being too old for anything 🤷🏻♂️
I’m generally in the same boat. I don’t think of Mint’s packages as “old”, but “stable”. I’ve had a few cases where I want the latest features, and there are easy ways to get new versions. Dialing down instability isn’t so easy.